>Every time I try to work with Googles opensourced stuff it always feels so complicated to me.

It is, but so is the problem space, as evidenced by AWS's own clusterfuck of services.

It kinda comes with the problem space they're trying to solve: how do you efficiently run a bunch of services on a bunch of computers? Virtualization solves one problem but you still have networking and service discovery to sort out.

If you're just running a personal blog, and toy projects, then k8s is really just more harm than help.